Air blower



Sv SQUILLER AIR BL'OWER- April 4, 1939.

Original Filed Sept. 4, 1936 u W W, H/ W,\\\. W w V//// g Pa e Apr. 4, 1939 AIR BLOWER Samuel Squiiicr, Pittsburgh, Pat, assignor to New Jersey chine Corporation, Hoboken, N. 1., a

corpora ion of New Jersey Application September 4. 1936, Serial No. 99,446 Renewed February 18, 1939 I 2 Claims. (01. 230-207) This invention relates to new and useful improvements in air blowers for industrial use in machine shops, printing shops and for painting, spraying or the like, and it is among the objects thereof to provide a blower unit of compact form in which the motor and blower are united in a single structure to render it transportable and accessible for general use. v

, Another object of the invention is the provision of an air blower embodying means, for supplying adequate lubrication to the rotor to adapt it for high speed operation, the lubrication being entrained in theair to assure its applicationto allt moving parts and side of the blower. I,

' These and other objects of the'invention will become more apparent from a description of the 25 the principles of theinvention; and

Fig. 2 a cross-sectional view through the blower taken transversely of the view shown in Fig. 1.

In the drawing the numeral 1 designates a'base plate of hollow construction as shown ,in Fig. 2.

0 to ,form a chamber 2 havinglan inlet connection 3 and an outlet connection (l the top and bottom walls of the chamber being provided with depending and upstanding baille elements 5 and 6, respectively, which are so disposed as to. pre- 5 vent the straight-line flow of air from the inlet 3 to the outlet 4.

A motor frame I is mounted on the base I and is vof standard construction with one of its end brackets 8 extended to constitute the end bracket 49 of the rotor or blower housing 9, which is fitted to the motor housing by a counterbored and shoulder portion III, as shown in Fig. 1. The blower consists of a cylinder ii and a rotor II, which is mounted on a shaft 13 to be eccentric with the cylindrical wall ll, sliding vanes l4 -"being disposed in slots l5 of the rotor to intimately engage the cylindrical wall If, whereby in response to rotation of the rotor l2, air is drawn from an inlet source i6 into the rotor 50 cylinder and is forced under pressure through an outlet H to a pipe connection I3 extending into the base inlet 3. As shown in Fig. 1, a fan IQ for cooling th windings of the motor is mounted'on the shaft l3. 9 Oil, asshown at 20, Fig. 2 is kept in the base satid blower being provided with means for condensing or precipitating thelubricant before the air passes frgm the outlet of the housing i and is conducted to the blower by a wick 2 I that extends through a helical tube The operation of the above-described air blow- 5 er is briefly as follows: The motor i is energized by connection with any electrical circuit outlet and rotor it of the blower is thereby actuated to draw air into the cylinder ll through the inlet It. Because of the eccentric. disposition ofthe l0- rotor to the blower cylinder, the air will be compressed in its travel from the inlet Hi to the outlet i'i and will be delivered under pressure throughpipe 98 into the chamber 2 of the base. The oil, in the hollow base will be drawn'up 15 by the wick 2! into the oil passage 23 of the blower and the passage of the oil through the wick is accelerated by the oil 20-being under pressure through the compressed air entering the hollow base. The oil entering passage 23 will be 20 entrained in the air passing into the rotor through inlet Ill and wilkbe forcibly drawn into the blower cylinder by an injector action. The oil thus entrained in the air will lubricate the vanes l4 and the cylinder wall ll, permitting 25 very high speed operation of the blower, thus providing maximum air capacity for a small motor unit. The compressed air entering the hol- 7 low base from conduit I8 through the inlet 3 is subjected to a swirling motion by the bailles 5 and 6, through which it must pass, which causes the oil to precipitate or be condensed and leaves the clean air to exit through the outlet 4 to use. Thus it is appa cut that the gist ,of the invention resides in t e supplying of adequate lubrication to the blower for high speed operation to seal the rotor vanes' and obtain maximum efflciency of the blower, while suitably lubricating the contacting parts, which may be subjected to high speed and yet assure the deliverance of 40 clean air for use in paint sprays and general industrial purposes such as to blow away cuttings in machine shops. pattern shops, and remove paper, lint and dust from printing machinery. Such a blower may also be employed for any type of small furnace requiring forced draft to support combustion. I As has been here' before pointed out, the blower construction is made inexpensive by constituting the blower housing an extension of the 5 motor housing, utilizing the end bracket of the motor for the end bracket of the blower housing. Although one embodiment of the invention has been herein illustrated and described, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various hollow base cor tituting a combined oil and baflle chamber; having an inlet and outlet for air and having vertically disposed baflle members extending from opposite walls of said hollow base and interposed. between said inlet and outlet, said oppositely disposed baflie members being spaced throughout substantially the entire longitudinal extent of said chamber, a blower mounted on said base having its air outlet passage con- 15 nected to the inlet of said hollow base and hav ing an air inlet passageopen to the atmosphere, and means "for conductingoil from the hollow base to the inlet passage of the blower to be entrained iii the air passing to the blower, said blower being operative to deliver air under pressure to the hollow base to subject the air to swirling movement through the bame members of the base and to cause the oil in the air to be peeipitated before'passing from the outlet of said base.

2. An air blower asset forth in claim 1, characterlzed by the oppositely disposed baflles terminating substantially at a median line.

SAMUEL SQUIILER. 

